[Mapserver-dev] creating some default symbols

Stephen Woodbridge woodbri at swoodbridge.com
Tue Jun 15 20:56:50 EDT 2004


Steve Lime wrote:
> Anyone see a problem with creating some basic symbols (circle, square,
> triangle, star) when the symbolFileObj is initialized? Users could
> reference them by names like _circle or _star so as not to break old
> apps. Then we could do things like using the built-in circle in cases
> when a user specifies a size but no symbol. 

I think this would be a great idea. It would simplify things if we 
didn't have to have a symbol file also if we didn't need custom symbols.

-Steve W.




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